40 Stralongford Road, Trillick, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 3TZ

40 Stralongford Road, Trillick, is a detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey house built around 1830 in the late Georgian style. The building is located on the south side of Stralongford Road, facing east, with a rectangular plan. It is accompanied by attached single-storey outbuildings at the south, with a further perpendicular range aligned east-west also built around 1830.

The house displays the massing and proportion typical of its period, enhanced by good quality stonework, original fenestration and modest detailing. The walls are constructed of roughly coursed rubble stone, with the south elevation smooth rendered. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and blue-black clay ridge tiles, with two dressed stone chimneystacks bearing chimneypots. Projecting eaves are supported by a course with u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods.

Windows are 8/8 timber sliding sashes on the principal elevations, with 2/2 sashes at the rear. All are fitted with exposed boxes, stone voussoirs and projecting stone cills. The principal east-facing elevation contains a window to each bay at each floor, arranged about a central entrance door. The entrance comprises a replacement timber panelled door with an original transom light over. The left gable is abutted by a single-storey extension built around 1910 with a pitched natural slate roof, which connects the main house to a single-storey random rubble outbuilding at the south also built around 1830; the exposed section of the gable is blank. The rear west elevation contains three windows at each floor. The right gable is blank.

The house is accessed from the north. Attached outbuildings at the south abut a perpendicular range of random rubble outbuildings with lime-washed random rubble walling, timber-sheeted doors and metal-sheeted roofs.

As a small, formal Georgian farmhouse, the property is of note, as few such buildings survive. It appears to represent a social stratum between the large estates and the local farming community. The unchanged farmyard setting adds to the historic character of the site.

The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, accompanied by an outbuilding to the south east. Further outbuildings appear to the south west on the 1852 edition and to the north on the 1905 edition. The property is recorded in the Townland Valuation as a "House and offices, occupied by Gerard Irwin" and valued at £6 6s 4d, with dimensions given for a house, addition and three offices. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 values the property at £5, with Gerard Irvine Senior recorded as owner in fee. Valuation Revisions record a change in occupier to Henry Irvine in 1864 and to John and Wilkin Irvine in 1913. By 1933, Wilkin Irvine is the owner and the property is revised in value to £7 after this date, though the date of change is not recorded. At that time the property comprised two rooms, a breakfast room, kitchen and scullery downstairs, and five bedrooms on the first floor. A plan and dimensions show the scullery appearing as a small extension to the south of the current house.